Perth Superdrome
Former names | Claremont Superdrome (1986 - 1996), Challenge Stadium (1996 - 2014) |
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Location | Stephenson Avenue, Mount Claremont, Perth, Western Australia 6010 |
Coordinates | 31°57′9″S 115°46′57″E / 31.95250°S 115.78250°E |
Operator | VenuesWest |
Capacity | Basketball / Netball: 4,500 |
Opened | 1986 |
Tenants | |
Western Australian Institute of Sport Perth Wildcats (NBL) (1987-1990, 2002-2012) Perth Lynx (WNBL) (1988-1989)) Perth Orioles (CBT) (1997-2007) West Coast Fever (ANZ Championship) (2008-present) |
HBF Stadium is a sports complex in the suburb of Mount Claremont, west of Perth, Western Australia, Australia. It was opened in 1986 and is home to the Western Australian Institute of Sport. The main indoor arena holds 4,500 people (over 5000 with standing room). Previously known as the Claremont Superdrome and Challenge Stadium, the stadium received its current name through a naming-rights sponsorship with HBF Health Fund in 2014[1]. Although the sponsorship with Challenge Bank no longer existed between 2002 and 2014, the name of the stadium was retained until 2014 when a new naming rights deal with HBF was struck.
Until the end of the 2011-12 NBL season, HBF Stadium was the home to five time National Basketball League champions the Perth Wildcats. The Wildcats previously used the venue when it was the Claremont Superdrome as their home court from 1987 until moving to the larger (8,200 capacity) Perth Entertainment Centre in 1990. They moved back to the stadium from the 2002-03 NBL season after the Entertainment Centre closed and remained there until the end of the 2011-12 season. The Wildcats played in four NBL Grand Final series at Challenge Stadium in 1987, 2002-03, 2009-10 and 2011-12, with the only championship coming in 2009-10. During Wildcats games the venue was referred to as "The Jungle".
The Wildcats final game at the stadium was their 87-86 win over the New Zealand Breakers in Game 2 of the 2011-12 NBL Grand Final series in front of 4,400 fans. From the 2012-13 NBL season, the Wildcats will play out of the new, 14,846 seat Perth Arena.
Three time world boxing champion Danny Green also calls HBF Stadium home.
Since 2008 the stadium has also been the home court for the West Coast Fever netball team who play in the ANZ Championship.
The complex features an Olympic-standard aquatic centre, a gym, an adventure training course, two arenas, and several basketball courts, as well as cafés, childcare centres, a sports store, accommodations, and a museum. Regular exhibitions and Expos are hosted throughout the year as well as many national and international sporting events such as the 1991 and the 1998 World Aquatics Championships.
In April/May 2011 Cirque Du Soleil did a 2 week run of its 1992 production Saltimbanco at Challenge Stadium
As a music venue
HBF Stadium has been the venue of major music concerts, including:
2003
- Craig David - 4 November 2003
- Cold Chisel - 11 December 2003
2004
- P!nk - 30 April 2004
2005
- Avril Lavigne - 6 April 2005
- Simple Plan - 11 October 2005
- Kelly Clarkson - 4 November 2005
2006
- Status Quo & Deep Purple - 3 May 2006
- Wolfmother - 16 July 2006
- The Strokes - 9 August 2006
- INXS - 12 September 2006
- Westlife - 17 September 2006
- Rogue Traders - 5 October 2006
- Live - 24 October 2006
- G3-06: Joe Satriani, Steve Vai & John Petrucci - 8 December 2006
2007
- Evanescence - 15 February 2007
- Westlife - 21 February 2007
- P!nk - 18–20 April & 2–4 June 2007
- Human Nature - 22–23 June 2007
- Heaven & Hell & Down - 2 August 2007
- The Cure - 4 August 2007
- Fall Out Boy - 29 September 2007
- Marilyn Manson - 13 October 2007
- Motörhead - 16 October 2007
- Good Charlotte - 17 October 2007
2008
- Kelly Clarkson - 1 March 2008
- The Black Crowes - 26 March 2008
- James Blunt - 9 May 2008
- Michael Bublé - 11-12 & 14–15 June 2008
- Paul Weller - 13 August 2008
- Panic At The Disco - 27 August 2008
- Disturbed - 29 August 2008
- Judas Priest - 16 September 2008
2009
- Fall Out Boy - 15 February 2009
- The Veronicas - 28 February & 1 March 2009
- The Living End - 22 May 2009
- Alice Cooper - 1 September 2009
- Chris Isaak - 16 & 17 September 2009
- Suzi Quatro - 22 September 2009
- Marilyn Manson - 5 October 2009
- Slayer & Megadeth - 13 October 2009
- Short Stack - 13 December 2009
2010
- Them Crooked Vultures - 19 January 2010
- Backstreet Boys - 2 March 2010
- Status Quo - 17 March 2010
- Short Stack - 26 March 2010
- Kelly Clarkson - 22 April 2010
- Deep Purple - 5 May 2010
- Yusuf - 10 June 2010
- Thirty Seconds to Mars - 24 July 2010
- Mika Singh - 7 August 2010
- Florence and the Machine - 10 August 2010
- Bullet for My Valentine - 5 September 2010
- Parkway Drive - 3 October 2010
- Paramore - 10 October 2010
- Village People - 20 October 2010
- Creedence Clearwater Revisited - 13 October 2010
- Jason Derülo - 2 November 2010
- Pendulum - 6 November 2010
2011
- Kesha - 7 March 2011
- Stone Temple Pilots - 16 March 2011
- The Script - 2 April 2011
- Good Charlotte - 15 April 2011
- Cirque Du Soleil - 21 April to 8 May 2011
- Eason Chan - 20 May 2011
- Bliss N Eso - 21 May 2011
- Parkway Drive - 27 May 2011
- Rise Against - 23 July 2011
- Winterbeatz - 17 August 2011
- Alice Cooper - 2 October 2011
- The Wombats - 11 October 2011
- Steely Dan & Steve Winwood - 18 October 2011
2012
- Tim Minchin - 10 & 12 February 2012
- Roxette - 28 & 29 February 2012
- Flight of the Conchords - 18, 19 & 20 July 2012
- The Smashing Pumpkins - 26 July 2012
- Hilltop Hoods - 17 August 2012
- Kelly Clarkson - 5 October 2012
- Roch Voisine - 24 November 2012
- Parkway Drive - 19 December 2012
2013
- X Factor Live - 16 January 2013
- Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band - 21 February 2013
- Ed Sheeran - 23 February 2013
- Flume - 13 May 2013
- Alt-J - 27 July 2013
- Bring Me the Horizon - 12 October 2013
- Eros Ramazzotti - 23 November 2013
- Simple Plan - 3 December 2013
2014
- Thirty Seconds to Mars - 25 March 2014
- Lorde - 29 April 2014
- Janelle Monáe & Kimbra - 16 May 2014
- Ellie Goulding - 28 May 2014
- Bastille - 18 June 2014
References
External links
- Challenge Stadium official website
- Perth Superdrome at Austadiums